Single Idea 2710

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability]

Full Idea

To make moral judgements is implicitly to invoke some principle, however specific.

Gist of Idea

Moral judgements must invoke some sort of principle

Source

Richard M. Hare (Universal Prescriptivism [1991], p.458)

Book Reference

'A Companion to Ethics', ed/tr. Singer,Peter [Blackwell 1993], p.458